This article examines a subset of justice-involved persons with mental illness who have repeated contacts with law enforcement officers. Previous work has alluded to this sub-population—often termed “frequent fliers”—but ...

As people encroach increasingly on natural areas, one question is how this affects avian biodiversity.
The answer to this is partly scale-dependent. At broad scales, human populations and biodiversity
concentrate in th ...

A great deal of research has documented racial disparities in imprisonment rates in the
United States, but little work has been done to understand the process by which inmates are
assigned to individual correctional fa ...

New policies require legitimacy to survive. Prison privatization represents a policy challenged by initial perceptions of
illegitimacy. In the 1980s, governments began to allow private firms to run correctional faciliti ...

Communities all rely to some degree upon residents to serve in and lead the local organizations that make those communities vital. Recognizing barriers experienced by specific groups helps community leaders identify why ...